CentOS 6.0 was just released and it’s seriously lacking many nice features that Ubuntu has had for more than a year.  Also, I believe that Ubuntu has been making the better design decisions as far as what to include and focus on for the next releases with linux.

When I worked at beatport.com, I worked alongside of a fedora developer/contributer who was worried about building packages and providing the latest/greatest for the new technologies that were coming out for linux and making sure that they build for fedora.  However, when things went wrong, he didn’t really care, as long as the package built under fedora.

Disclaimer: I don’t know any Ubuntu maintainers, but I get the feel that the Ubuntu people are a much more tight-knit group of guys/gals that really put some planning and thought into the technologies that are included with the distro, while the redhat/fedora guys are just struggling with getting things to work.

Ubuntu feels like a cleaner, much more finely crafted distribution than fedora does to me.  Just my gut feeling.  NOTE: I don’t really like Ubuntu taking X out of the 11.x distro, but to be honest, I’ve only used the server-version of 11.04 and have not spent much time with the desktop version of 11.x - it could be really nice, I don’t know.

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